News - Lebanon Moves to Disarm Hezbollah, Netanyahu Announces Gaza Occupation, 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing in Hiroshima

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads. Don't forget to purchase our "Welcome to the Crusades" miniseries! The AP team will wear formal Tevas to the new White House ballroom. Otherwise, in this week’s news: Danny and Derek reflect on the 80th anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1:46); in Israel-Palestine, Netanyahu announces his “full occupation” plan (8:24) as the US expands the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (13:58); the Lebanese government moves to disarm Hezbollah (16:48); the US looks to host an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace summit (20:51); Trump punishes India for purchasing Russian oil (24:20); Thailand and Cambodia agree to the deployment of ceasefire monitors (27:49); in Sudan, the RSF carries out a new atrocity (29:50) and the military accuses the United Arab Emirates of hiring mercenaries (32:37); a new report details sexual violence in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia (35:06); in Russia-Ukraine, Steve Witkoff visits Moscow ahead of a Putin-Trump meeting (37:28) as the US nevertheless plans to impose tariffs on Russia (40:34); El Salvador’s legislature removes presidential term limits (41:57); and in US news, America makes a new “third country” trafficking agreement with Rwanada (43:15), the State Department starts a new program forcing travelers to pay bonds to the US government (45:23), and NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon (46:50). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at AmericanPrestigepod.com.
0:08.3	Find the link in our show notes.
0:11.0	Hello, everyone. It's Derek. We here at American Prestige. We're very happy to announce that we've been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Signal Awards in the category of news and politics. This is pretty cool.
0:23.4	It puts us up against some pretty big shows like Pod Save America and the weekly show with
0:29.8	John Stewart. So we're pretty excited to be in this group. Now, there are two components to this.
0:36.0	There's a judged award that we'll find out if we
0:39.3	won or came in second or third place. I think they do a gold, silver bronze thing on October 15th.
0:45.6	But in the meantime, there's also a listener's choice element to this or a listener's choice
0:50.6	award that goes along with this. And that's where you guys come in.
0:59.1	We would love for you to vote for the show and help us beat these bigger shows,
1:01.2	the Pod Save Americas of the world.
1:04.0	So all you have to do is go to vote.
1:05.9	Dot Signal Award.com.
1:07.3	Signal award is all one word.
1:10.9	Click on the categories menu, select news and politics, and that's where you'll find us, and please vote for us. Or you can simply click the link that you will find in the show
1:16.8	notes. Again, we would really like to win this. It's not a huge, not going to make or break the show,
1:21.5	but it would be really cool, and especially the listener's choice component, because I think
1:26.5	that really means something.
1:29.6	So please do that.
1:31.2	And as always, thanks for your support for the show,
1:33.5	and please enjoy the episode.
1:38.6	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
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